Becoming a citizen in the United States of America is harder than you thought.  The questionnaire that immigrants who are looking for citizenship have to fill out is much more extensive than any high school government assessment.  In fact, some, if not most, natural born citizens of the United States probably could not pass the entrance exam to be citizens!

The United States Citizen and Immigration Service is looking for creative ways to help immigrants better understand the United States government structure, processes, and leaders.  As the leading sales person for DreamLife Comic Company it is your job to create and present a comic book to the directors of the United States Citizen and Immigration Services.  There are other comic book companies sending representatives to the USCIS so you must put out your best work on this one.  You are up for a promotion in the fall and you know the boss is watching.  Besides, the commission from this would be phenomenal!

You are going to be spending some time pulling together resources and images to build a comic book that the USCIS won’t be able to put down. 

Your first order of business is to look over the Web sites that were provided to you by the DreamLife Executive Manager and pull out the information that you need.  You may already have some of the needed information in past projects that the Executive Manager has assigned to you.  This information that you need includes:

What does the Constitution say?

Your Representative and Senator with contact information

            Include Avatar if available

Legislative process timeline

Explanation of each of the branches of the US government

            Constitutional responsibilities

                        Separation of power

                        Checks and balances

                        Web site for each branch

            Current leadership

                        Term limits for each

                        Re-election dates or end term dates

After you have looked over the information you need you turn to the graphics that your going to incorporate into you comic book.  They have to be clear and to the point.  After all, most of the people “reading” this book will probably be speaking English as a second language.

When your research is complete you are going to have to familiarize yourself with the new technology your Executive Manager wants you to use for this project: Comic Life.  You have heard that it is not too difficult to figure out but that is what an EM would tell you.  It’s time to decide for yourself.

Cornell University – Legal Information Institute

http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/

The White House – for all 3 branches

http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/

Senator information (should already have from previous lesson)

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Representative information (should already have should already have from previous lesson)

https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml

Avatar Builder (should already have should already have from previous lesson) 

http://beta.mego.com/site/en_us/login

Google Earth (should already have from previous lesson)

http://earth.google.com 

Comic Life

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/comiclife.html

Comic Life instructions

http://www.macinstruct.com/node/69